An Environmentally Adaptive Conceptual Framework for Addressing Information Privacy Issues in Digital Ecosystems

The evolution of collaborative environments towards digital ecosystems comes with increased risks to personal data and entity privacy. To address privacy protection concerns we propose a conceptual framework that integrates technical, legal and contextual components to provide comprehensive system wide privacy. Part of the framework is a privacy evaluator module (PEM). The PEM's function is to assimilate individual information system privacy protection strategies into a consistent ecosystem wide approach.